LAKELAND, Fla. - The Wolves' Spring Break Road Trip ended on Wednesday with a pair of losses at Florida Southern in a non-conference doubleheader.
West Georgia (6-23) was stifled by the Mocs' pitching staff who held the Wolves to just 11 hits in both game combined. Florida Southern (16-14), meanwhile, had 27 hits in the doubleheader, combining for 15 runs on the day. It was a 10-2 run-rule victory for FSC in game one and the a furious UWG comeback in game two came up short as the Wolves tied things up at 5-5 in the seventh and the Mocs pushed a run across in the bottom half to walk it off.
GAME ONE
For the third straight game, UWG took a lead in the first inning, only to give it right back in the bottom half. The Wolves manufactured their first run as Zekylah Boyd singled and stole second and then advanced to third on a groundout and scored on a Madison Vandergriff single. Vandergriff then scored on a Rylee Green single to go up 2-0 before the Mocs got to the plate.
But the Mocs scored two in the first and four in the second to take a commanding lead. A three spot in the fourth made it a seven-run, 9-2 lead and a two-out single in the fifth pushed across FSC's 10th run that ended the game in the fifth inning with the Mocs up 10-2.
UWG had four hits on the day with three of them coming from the top five spots in the order with Nicole Couvertiere adding a pinch hit single,
West Georgia used three pitchers in game one with Macy Ann McKnight getting the start and taking the loss.
GAME TWO
Once again, the Wolves got a lead in game two, going up 1-0 on an R.J. Janke RBI double in the opening inning. Janke's double scored Madison Vandergriff who reached on a two-out single. Florida Southern got the run right back in the bottom half, using a leadoff double, a sac bunt, and an RBI single by the three-hole hitter to tie it up at 1-1.
After zeroes in the second, third, and top half of the fourth, FSC struck for three in the fourth on four base hits and then got what turned into an important insurance run in the fifth to make it a 5-1 lead.
With just three hits through the first six innings and trailing by four the Wolves went to work in the seventh. It started with a pinch hit single from Calli Hardison and then a Mocs' error and a Chandler Mevis single loaded the bases. Nicole Couvertiere had the first big hit, singling home Hardison and Emma Nixon. Then it was Vandergriff who singled home two more to tie things up at 5-5.
The Mocs cashed in a leadoff walk in the seventh to walk it off for the 6-5 win to sweep the twin bill.
NOTABLE NUMBERS
- Vandergriff had a hit in each game to extend her hitting streak to eight games, hitting .524 (11-for-21) during the streak.
- Nicole Couvertiere picked up her first career multi-RBI game with her two-RBI single in the seventh inning of game two.
UP NEXT
The Wolves return to GSC play on Saturday, taking on nationally ranked Alabama Huntsville in the first two of three games set for the weekend.
